Seized Power

Famous quotes containing the words seized and/or power:

    Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    La foi consiste à croire ce que la raison ne croit pas ... Il ne suffit pas qu’une chose soit possible pour la croire. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe ... It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)